Noyale Colin

Practical Research

26-30/06/2017Embodiment in dance performance.This research is centred on developing a performer’s methodology of embodying emotional and transformational journey towards rationality in performance training. It will reflect on the relation between individual and internal training such as yoga and group dynamics in movement improvisation.

June 2017- Sept 2019‘Dancing in HE: a reassessment of technical and performance training’ - Teaching led project with Dr Cathy Seago (University of Winchester).This project will investigate different aspects of dance practice and its requirements/expectations in HE. It aims at setting out the challenges that new kinds of students in HE have created for teaching and learning physical skills in dance.

01/06/2017The politics of togetherness in dance: practising collectivity in social choreographyDialogue on Dance - Philosophy and Performance in the Contemporary Neoliberal Movement Symposium, Coventry University.

29/04/2016A ‘planetary problem’: contemporary responses within European dance theatre to the ‘crisis’ of belonging'Crisis' in Excess? Performing Europe today Symposium, University of Winchester.​19/03/2015‘Distributed Performers’ Self in Composition: An insight into Interdisciplinary Structured Improvisation’.Performance and Interdisciplinarity Conference, University of Malta.

14/04/2012‘Choreographic Presence: time, memory and affect’PSi London group, International Conference: How Performance Thinks’, London, UK.

22/05/2012'Choreographic presence through time: a performative assessment of the legacy of the Judson Dance Theatre Group'. Postgraduate Conference: Transform@work, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

13/06/2012‘Collaboration in Crisis? A mixed-practice inquiry into collaborative processes in performance practice’.Practice-led research presentation, forum convened by Dr Susan Lock, Art and Design Research Institute, London.